Here is a link to an article that speaks to the possible effect of losing even one night’s sleep: link
In reading it, I looked back in my mind to moments where I had conversations about sleep, and I recall that there is an almost “hero-worship” for people who fail to get enough sleep.
“Oh, I couldn’t go to sleep until four last night, and I get up at six…”  “Wow, you’re hardcore…”
“No sleep for me tonight, I’ve got to work a double.”
How is it that the people who do it WRONG …

I don’t know why I do it. And anymore, I don’t know why it makes me so angry.
For a peculiar reason, I was Googling the terms “Dungeons and Dragons” and “Cultural Phenomenon.” I didn’t really expect it, but I found a link to one of the original purveyors of anti-D&D vitriol, Bill Schnoebelen. The link itself is to a followup article in 2001, published by some glorified tract company.  I got to reading it, and even though it is rife with inconsistency and logical fallacy, even though …

I realized when I started this post that I never posted the results of my bout with South Beach Phase One in January. I was able to lose almost four inches around my waist. That was then. I’m doing SBP1 again (notice my level of familiarity with the program, that I can confidently sling about the acronym as if I invented the thing), and I’m a week into it. And I have lost almost two inches at this point. An important note here is that …